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We actually really enjoyed Chilling Adventures of Sabrina once it got going and the Midwinter’s Tale was a fun Christmas special… featuring people who worship Satan, and we already knew that Season 2 (part two as it’s called) has been greenlit and will arrive in April.

It seems that the episodes we have had so far (eleven in all) are part one of the story with part two set for April and then part three later next year – presumably Halloween time again.

“Praise Satan! I’m so grateful to my partners at Warner Brothers, Netflix, Berlanti Television and Archie Productions for supporting this darker vision of the world’s most famous teen witch,” series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa said of the newly announced 16 episodes.

“And I’m thrilled to be continuing to tell Sabrina’s chilling adventures with our incredible cast and crew, led by the unstoppable Kiernan Shipka.”

So Sabrina and her family of Spellmans aren’t going anywhere… just yet, anyway

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A second trailer for the third season of Young Justice is here!

The new series which finds its way to DC Universe is dubbed The Outsiders and the new trailer looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun.

Less than a month to go…

From Warner Bros. Animation, Young Justice: Outsiders features the return of the fan favorite animated series with a huge cast of DC’s most iconic young super heroes – plus brand-new characters, many of whom are just discovering their unique meta-powers and special abilities. Set against the backdrop of a rich, deep world that touches all corners of the DC universe, our heroes will face the new threat of metahuman-trafficking, and an intergalactic arms race for control of these super-powered youths. Young Justice: Outsiders premieres January 4, 2019 exclusively on DC Universe.

Because any comic fan will know that the reference to his ring is likely his Green Lantern ring which means that on Earth 90 Diggle is a Lantern! Yes!

But, the problem is Earth 90 isn’t where any of the Arrowverse shows are set, so we’ll not likely see too much of him as Lantern.

But… see him we may, nonetheless.

Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz was talking about the reveal at a recent press screening and said: “To be continued… No, we were all really excited about that fun nod. But I’m not sure what’s to come of that, really.”

“It’s not been written yet,” Flash showrunner Todd Helbing added.

“Yeah, it’s not been written yet,” Schwartz agreed.

What does that mean? Well, with Crisis On Infinite Earths has been revealed as next year’s crossover event (we ponder what that may mean here), so we’re guessing that we’ll see the big reveal then and honestly, we can’t wait.

We love David Ramsey as Dig, we know we”’ really love him as… John Stewart? Whatever way it plays out, Green Lantern is going to the Arrowverse!

Presumably, the pair are referring to the fact that next fall’s crossover “Crisis on Infinite Earths” hasn’t been written yet as that’s the most likely place that the “Elseworlds” reference would come to life, as it’ll see The CW tackle the massive comic book event that unites the multiverse together to defeat the Anti-Monitor.

If they can get the rights to Green Lantern for the crossover, then they have to get Ramsey to play him. But at this point, it’s far too early to say if such a thing will happen.

The role is a recurring one for McHale and he’s apparently going to be in full Golden Age hero mode!

A courageous and confident superhero, Starman is a member of the Justice Society of America. He wields a mysterious anti-gravity weapon called the cosmic staff and has a longtime sidekick named Stripesy, who is better known as Courtney Whitmore’s stepfather, Pat Dugan.

Next up, S.W.A.T.‘s Lou Ferrigno Jr will be Golden Age Hourman!

Lou Ferrigno Jnr is, of course, the son of original Hulk star Lou Ferrigno and he will have a recurring role in the show as Rex Tyler.

Hourman is a master chemist and adrenaline junkie who as Hourman is a thrill-seeking superhero with the ability to manifest super-strength… for one hour a day. A founding member of the Justice Society of America, Rex/Hourman struggles with balancing his life as a hero and father.

Next up The Haunting of Hill House‘s Henry Thomas will be popping up regularly as Golden Age Dr. Mid-Nite.

So it looks like the show is going full Justice Society Of America here and, interestingly, these characters have all been part of Legends of Tomorrow in that show’s second series but there is no connection between the two series.

Also known as the introspective surgeon Dr. Charles McNider, Dr. Mid-Nite is a brilliant and forward-thinking medical pioneer, and a founding member of the JSA. With his trusty owl, he acts as the team’s resident doctor and detective.

We love these guys and the excitement has us hoping August gets here pretty quick!

And, in case you’re wondering when all the DC Universe goodness is coming, here’s the official schedule:

Geoff Johns will write and exec produce the 13-episode series via his Mad Ghost Productions banner. The drama hails from Warner Bros Television and Greg Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Productions, with Sarah Schechter also serving as an exec producer.

Johns had this to say: “It’s so personal for me, and to create and run my show … this is the kind of opportunity that I couldn’t have had if I had stayed in that role.”

Johns’ late sister is the inspiration behind the show: “This is based on my sister. The character is fun and optimistic. It’s about bringing back the legacy of the Justice Society,” he says.

Stranger Things and now Hellboy star David Arbour has shared a cool new motion poster (below) to go with the new poster (above).

On top of that, it seems the movie has dropped the full title of Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen and settled for just: Hellboy.

Can these movies hope to come close to the awesome ones that Guillermo Del Toro? The remains to be seen… but we will have a small idea when we get the first trailer this Thursday!

Yup… see you on December 20th Hellboy fans!

Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen will star Stranger Things’ David Harbour as the titular hero in the Lionsgate and Millennium film, which is slated to begin filming in September. Ian McShane (Deadwood, American Gods) will play Hellboy’s adoptive father, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm (aka Professor Broom), Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Resident Evil franchise) has been cast as villain the Blood Queen, Sasha Lane (American Honey) will play Alice Monaghan, Penelope Mitchell (Hemlock Grove) will play the elder witch Ganeida, and Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0, LOST) is playing Major Ben Daimio.

Neil Marshall (The Descent, Game of Thrones) will direct from a script from Andrew Cosby (Eureka), Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola. Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin will produce with Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Entertainment.

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So Netflix dropped a tease for Dark Crystal fans earlier today, saying that tomorrow is the 36th anniversary of the movie which seems… fortuitous.

And we were wondering if maybe we were going to get a trailer or better still, the full release of new prequel series The Dark Crystal: Age of resistance and, while we’re still not sure what is happening, we have loads more information than we did are the start of the day.

We have these cool images:

And, from what we can gleam these characters are Gelfling heroes Rian, Brea, and Deet played by Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nathalie Emmanuel.

The world of Thra is dying. The Crystal of Truth is at the heart of Thra, a source of untold power. But it is damaged, corrupted by the evil Skeksis, and a sickness spreads across the land. When three Gelfling uncover the horrific truth behind the power of the Skeksis, an adventure unfolds as the fires of rebellion are lit and an epic battle for the planet begins.

We have no idea when this is going to drop but we’re very, very excited for it!

On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.

I don’t think anyone will argue that, as the Michael Bay Transformers movies went on they become more senseless and bombastic until, with The Last Knight, the story was completely stupid and the movie was such a mess that almost endless battles between giant robots couldn’t save it from being utterly boring and forgettable.

Seriously, what was the plot of that movie!?

So, not before time, a change came.

Michael Bay – king of the big bang – was set to produce while Kubo And the Two Strings director Travis Knight was in. Out was Shia Labeouf and Mark Wahlberg (thank the maker!), in was Edge Of Seventeen’s Hailee Steinfeld and, it can’t be disputed, it’s a much better outing.

Although, far from perfect.

I’m going to keep it spoiler free here gang, but anyone who will have seen there trailer will know we’re in for some serious Generation One (the original) Transformers action and we do get it and, for the brief time it’s on screen, it’s beautiful – so beautiful that when the first scene ended I said out loud, “No! I want two hours of that!!!” and I never speak in the cinema! – but it’s brief and while entirely wonderful and nostalgic, it’s little more than fan service and does little to add to the plot anything that a line of dialogue couldn’t have done… but, fan service is what it is and it was totally worth the admission price alone.

As for the rest of the movie, there is a definite feel that the budget was greatly reduced as Bumblebee spends an awful lot of time as a car.

But…

We all know money isn’t the core of telling a good story and here, like a throwback to the days of Spielberg, the story is told through the eyes of Steinfeld’s Charlie, a young girl who has had a family tragedy and really just needs a friend and luckily a giant war robot from an alien planet arrives just as she needs him most.

And the heart of the movie is worn unashamedly on the arm of the movie. The performances from the core cast – even Cena’s screaming and sneering soldier – are really great, with Steinfeld giving an emotional, relatable and fun performance, similar in many ways to her role in Edge of Seventeen, but without the boy trouble.

Which takes us to Bumblebee himself. The emotion in this robot, compared to the decade of robots we’ve had in the lead-up to this movie, is phenomenal and is undoubtedly down to Knight’s experience on Kubo, giving puppets life and emotion has really rubbed off here and Bumblebee becomes a living, breathing character who is fun and we care for.

However, there’s an odd sense of emptiness to proceedings. The whole adventure is small and personal and there’s never really a sense of real danger to the whole thing. Sure, there’s a couple of Decepticons up to no good, manipulating the military and the likes, but – and we’re sure this is deliberate – the whole thing feels enjoyable but inconsequential.

Look, I want big fighting robots in my Transformers movie, but, well, there’s not too much of that happening.

There’s clearly a movement here to so blatantly NOT be a Michael Bay movie that is threads dangerously close to going too far in the opposite direction.

Thankfully, there’s enough to love to ensure it never teeters over the brink.

And while this outing gives the impression it’s in the same universe as the previous movies, well, it can’t be because this movie undoes a lot of things established before and, while the Bay movies have had several contradicting plot points, the contradictions here feel like they are deliberate and it actually is a full-blown reboot.

And that’s fine by us because this movie lifts much from classics such as ET and the Iron Giant and we all know that’s where Transformers belongs…

Not perfect, but definitely a lot of fun and a massive improvement over the recent efforts, this is a franchise I could fall in love with all over again.

The Mayor screenwriter Amanda Idoko will be on writing duties as far as we know and the movie is set to be a comedy action/adventure for Warners/New Line, the same folk who are bringing us Shazam!

Plasticman is really Patrick “Eel” O’Brian in the comics, a former criminal who is a good guy after he was covered in toxic chemicals during a criminal adventure which, yup, now allows him to manipulate his body in any given way since it’s… plastic now.

We’ll be watching this with great interest and, of course, will be keeping you posted as and when we hear more.

But we know that with the lighter tone of Aquaman the DC universe moving forward could be a much stranger place…